More and more professors are banning laptops from their classrooms. This is coming at a time when more and more colleges are also requiring students to buy laptop computers.
What do you think?
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Facebook is one of the largest sites on the Internet.
But most people don’t know the story of how it was founded.
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David Risley has a blog post on what he views as the top five mistakes people make on Twitter.
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Remember The Visual Display of Quantitative Information? It was a book by Edward Tufte of Yale that showed innovative ways of showing a lot of numbers in intuitive and information-dense ways.
Now somebody’s come up with a poster that tries to make sense of the federal budget along the same lines.
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Google announced that they are going to be building high-speed networks 100x faster what most people have today.
They’re going to price their broadband service competitively to what other companies are charging.
I say it’s about time.
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Google introduced what they’re calling Safety Mode for YouTube. YouTube’s community guidelines are already pretty strict, but Safety Mode takes it a step further.
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The Gizmodo blog did some arithmetic, and it figures that all the digital subscriptions you need to keep all of the devices some people view as necessary these days can cost near a thousand dollars.
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So who needs a time slot?
After being pushed out by NBC to make room for Jay Leno, what will Conan O’Brian do next?
How about a radical move of going web-only?
That’s what the New York Times Bits Blog surmises.
With the $40 million dollar settlement, I think it’s certainly a possibility. (OK, much of that money is [...]
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This month’s New Yorker cover was drawn by artist Jorge Colombo while standing outside the wax museum in Times Square. He used an iPhone application called Brushes.
There’s a video on the New Yorker site which shows how he did it. The video is created by another Brushes application called Brushes Viewer, which converts the saved [...]
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Most of us spend much of our working and personal lives using computers. I’ve noticed that almost everything that you do with a computer requires a lot of research, experimentation, and often frustration.
Digitivity is a weblog mostly of my experiences in trying to increase my digital productivity. I hope you find [...]
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